First labour policy announced
September 27, 1972
NATION PROUD OF BAF PATRIOTISM
Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman expresses his firm confidence that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country would ever remain intact under the united and coordinated efforts of the heroic Bangladesh Air force, the Army and the Navy. In a message to the Bangladesh Air Force on the occasion of the First Air Force Day on the September 28, Bangabandhu says that the nation is proud of the discipline, devotion, and patriotism of the air force.
MANAGEMENT BOARD, COUNCIL TO RUN INDUSTRIES
A top management board will be set up for nationalised or taken over industries by the government. The board will ensure participation of workers in the management of the industries. The management board will consist of two representatives each from employers and workers and one from financial institution. But the wage structure and other financial benefits to be granted to the workers will not be within the scope of top management board. These will be directly handled by the government. This is disclosed by Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury, minister for labour and social welfare at a press conference in Dhaka today.
Announcing the country's first ever labour policy, Zahur Ahmed Chowhdury also reveals that workers management council, with equal number of representatives from workers and management to deal with the day-to-day problems including disciplinary action against the workers, would soon be set up in each industrial concern.
The problems which could not be resolved by the council would be referred to the proposed management board, he adds. It may be mentioned here that 85 percent of the investment in industries of the country are in the nationalised sector. He, however, makes it clear that the absence of collective bargaining by workers in nationalised or taken over industries would not mean cessation of trade union activities. The government, he says, is aimed at giving encouragement to the growth of democratic trade movement in the country.
DECLARATION OF THREE WEEKLIES CANCELLED
The government has cancelled the declaration of two Bangla weeklies Haq Katha and Mukhapatra and an English weekly Spokesman for publishing prejudicial materials. The presses from where these weeklies were being published have also been ordered not to publish books or newspapers until further orders.
SOURCES: September 28, 1972 issues of Bangladesh Observer, Dainik Bangla and Dainik Ittefaq.
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